Twelve-year-old Amanda seems to have everything any girl could ask for - a nice plantation home just outside of Williamsburg, Virginia, loving parents, even a brand-new grown-up ball gown for the upcoming Twelfth Night ball. It's like a dream - and like a dream, she will all too soon awaken, when the spiteful servant Jane reveals long-hidden secrets of Amanda's past. "Just you wait," Jane predicts gleefully, "this is only the beginning. Next they'll be coming for you, to take you away." Amanda isn't one to sit passive in the face of disaster, though. She resolves to find the truth and to...

Young Amelia liked living in colonial Fredericksburg and she was happy working for Mr. and Mrs. Brown. She had bigger dreams, however, for her future. It wouldn't be easy, since she was an orphan, a servant, and, worst of all, a girl. In 1771 Virginia, girl's didn't do the kind of things that Amelia dreamed of.

Amelia was stubborn, though, and that wasn't going to stop her -- or so she thought. But was she wrong? After all, she wasn't even twelve years old. What did she really know about the world of colonial Virginia. She didn't even know that her life was about to undergo a sudden...